Ante Labs is a 10-person (5 FT & 5 PT), remote-first web3 startup building Ante. Our mission is to automate monetary peace of mind for the world. We are backed by top crypto VCs including Sequoia, and successful founders.
Ante solves the problem of, “DeFi is supposed to be money Legos, but is really money Jenga.” Ante hosts on-chain, incentivized, non-custodial tests for smart contracts for any web3 project that checks key assumptions in real-time. Ante enables greater protocol interoperability and we believe it is necessary for crypto to grow. We hope to bootstrap Ante into a decentralized Schelling Point for measuring trust.
We have started building a simple, self-serve primitive that measures the trust of on-chain guarantees. We want to bootstrap that primitive into the first decentralized “trust ratings” system so that Ante becomes infrastructure that wraps any implicit guarantee in web3: protocol solvency, cross-chain uptime, mining pool/DAO actions, even “digital physics” of the metaverse.
If you are excited to build Ante with us, email [email protected] with your resume/GitHub.
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💡 Pro tip: submit a PR for an Ante Test to the commmunity repo or check out our docs!
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Roles we are actively hiring for:
- Technical Team Lead: We are looking for a product-minded full-stack developer (experienced with React / Node / Solidity) with 2+ years experience in a production environment. Familiarity with the team lead role, startup experience, and Solidity experience are ideal but not required. The ideal team lead is also:
- Security minded and detail oriented
- Fast at implementation (will read / write code daily)
- Interested in a remote-first org., and willing to self-direct learning while coordinating an English-speaking team
- Backend Engineer: The Backend Engineer will focus on building initial versions of the Ante protocol. Aside from experience working with systems and databases, the ideal candidate works well in an environment with rapid iteration cycles, possesses a security mindset, and has exceptional attention to detail. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of experience implementing and shipping code to a production environment. Solidity experience is desired, but not required.
- Research Engineer: The Research Engineer will work on researching and implementing advanced Ante Tests and infrastructure incorporating zero-knowledge proof verification on-chain. The Research Engineer must be highly quantitative (e.g., possesses an understanding of abstract algebra) and be comfortable working with low-level implementation (e.g., writing algebraic circuits). Experience with Circom or snarkJS is desired (for reference: check out our first zkSNARK-powered Ante Test on Goerli).
- Product Lead: The Product Lead will be responsible for spearheading the end-to-end process for shipping new products to external users on a weekly cadence, working closely with the designers and engineers on the team. The ideal candidate for this role has a technical / analytical background, familiarity with the web3 space, and experience working on Product at early-stage startups.
- Strategy Lead: The Strategy Lead will work closely with the CEO on a regular basis, and will help with coordination across multiple functions (Product, BD/Marketing, BizOps, Community, etc.) A candidate for this role must be exceptionally organized and fast, detail-oriented, and possess strong interpersonal and communication skills. The ideal Strategy Lead enjoys problem-solving and is excited to tackle the organizational challenges of a growing, remote-first team.